Sustainability Solutions to Share with Linchpins # 59

I’m sharing “million dollar” creative sustainability ideas.

You can have them for free.

Be a Linchpin. Develop something: ship, ship, ship!

Minimized packaging:

If DVDs, CDs, and video games get pushed downstream to the used-games store, they often lose their big plastic boxes. Why did we need them anyway?

Primarily we needed something bigger than someone’s pocket.

Where’s the Linchpin opportunity?

Why not seal these products in packages embedded with seeds, and encourage people to toss them out their car windows to make the world a prettier place?

Simple. Beautiful. Elegant. Smart-Packaging. Sustainable!

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